The best bliss imaginable is not worth the worst pain imaginable. So we get the short end of the stick in life.

Think of the perfect possible life for you: wealth, perfect lover, optimal health, all your family and friends thriving and you have incredible experiences everyday.

Now imagine the worst possible life: torture, seeing your family and friends be britually tortured in front of you — their eyeballs gauged out, them impaled, roasted — psychologically tricked and worn out until they break completely. And then your turn. You don’t die through it; no, not so quickly. Not until you’ve suffered the greatest pain both psychological and physical.

If someone gave you the option to have either one of those scenarios based on a coin flip, would you take it? I would not. And I don’t think many would.

Because the worst pain doesn’t justify the best.

So to me it seems in life we endure agony for a little happiness boost. But the agony is greater. Life really is unfair.